The English Reformation c1527-1590 How did state and people respond to religious change?

This is a full, but by no mean comprehensive, reading list for the Reformation, covering England, Wales and Ireland.

The material is mixed: some of the items are paperback books, most (though, unfortunately not all) of which are relatively reasonably priced. Many items, however, are journal articles which you will primarily find in, or via, a university library (it is possible to ‘rent’ or buy access to individual journal articles through the publishers’ websites, but this can be pricey). Many institutions now offer access to JSTOR (the main repository of journal articles online) to alumni for free; some institutions (like my own) also offer access to teachers in the local area. So it is worth exploring both of these options. Remember that JSTOR has a ‘moving wall’ of usually five years – in other words, you will only get access to articles that were published five or more years ago.

However, if you have full access to a university's library, you can usually get access to more recent material through the journal's publishers itself, e.g. Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press (although via the library catalogue). As with all things, what is available is dependent on what subscriptions the university has (and journal subscriptions are very expensive) and whether journals have digitised their back issues (most have by now).

Generally, these lists are organised with general/introductory material at the beginning of each section and then more specialised material later on. Some of the larger topics are broken down into subsections (organised on the same basis).

1. General books

Robert Tittler & Norman Jones (eds.), A Companion to Tudor Britain (Oxford, 2009) – doesn't just cover the Reformation; a really good introduction to a range of issues. Often available as an e-book in univeristies.

Susan Doran and Norman Jones (eds.), The Elizabethan World (London and New York, 2011) – expensive but very good. Like Tittler & Jones, above, covers more than just the Reformation.

Christopher Haigh, English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors (Oxford, 1993) – really good for lots of evidence of what was happening ‘on the ground’.

Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2003).

Alec Ryrje, Being protestant in Reformation Britain (Oxford, 2015) – focused on the nature of devotion, rather than the impact of the Reformation. Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie (eds), *Worship and the parish church in early modern Britain* (Farnham and Burlington, VT, 2013), esp. essays by Ryrie, Willis, Marsh and Craig

**Sourcebooks and specific material on types of sources**

David Cressy & Lori Anne Ferrell (eds.), *Religion and Society in early modern England: a sourcebook* (2nd edn, Abingdon & New York, 2005).

Alec Ryrie, ‘Counting sheep, counting shepherds: the problem of allegiance in the English Reformation’, in Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie (eds.), *The beginnings of English protestantism* (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 84-110.

Michael L. Zell, ‘The use of religious preambles as a measure of religious belief in the sixteenth century’, *Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research*, 50 (1977), 246-9 – relevant for understanding the will of Rauff Shelton

J.D. Alsop, ‘Religious Preambles in Early Modern English Wills as Formulae’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 40 (1989), pp. 19-27 – relevant for understanding the will of Rauff Shelton

**Reference material**

*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)* This contains biographies of many people involved in the Reformation, from monarchs and higher clergy to London preachers. It is always worth checking because, inevitably with this period, biographical information is weaved quite closely into the political, social and religious events of the period. Most public libraries in the UK subscribe to ODNB.

**Historiography**

Patrick Collinson, ‘The English Reformation’, in Michael Bentley (ed.), *Companion to Historiography* (London and New York, 2002), pp. 336-60 – very good on the broad historiography of the Reformation.

Christopher Haigh, ‘The recent historiography of the English Reformation’, *Historical Journal*, 25 (1982), pp. 995-1107 – the standard and seminal essay on how to make sense of the speed and direction of change ‘on the ground’

Alec Ryrie, 'Paths not taken in the British Reformations', *Historical Journal*, 52 (2009), pp. 1-22.

**2. The Pre-Reformation Church**

Ben R McRee, ‘Traditional religion’, in Tittler and Jones (eds.), *Companion to Tudor Britain*, pp. 207-20. Eamon Duffy, *The stripping of the altars* (New Haven, 1992), chs 1-10.

Christopher Harper-Bill, ‘Dean Colet’s Convocation sermon and the pre-Reformation church in England’, *History*, 73 (1988), pp. 191-210.

James G. Clark, ‘Humanism and reform in pre-Reformation English monasteries’, *Transactions of the Royal Historical Society*, 6th series, 19 (1999), pp. 57-93.

Henry A Jeffries, ‘A church ‘in decline’?: The pre-Reformation Irish church’, *History Ireland*, 14:6 (2006), pp. 13-18.

3. The Henrician Reformation

a) Reformation ‘at the top’

Conrad Russell, ‘The Reformation and the creation of the Church of England, 1500-1640’ in John Morrill (ed.), *The Oxford Illustrated history of Tudor and Stuart Britain* (Oxford, 1996), pp. 258-77 only.

Christopher Haigh, *English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors* (Oxford, 1993), chs. 6-9 (primarily on change at the top)

Richard Rex, *Henry VIII and the English Reformation* (London, 1993)

Felicity Heal, *Reformation in Britain and Ireland* (Oxford, 2003), ch.4 (8 useful too)

Brendan Bradshaw, ‘The opposition to the ecclesiastical legislation in the Irish reformation parliament’, *Irish Historical Studies*, 16 (1969), pp. 285-303.

Diarmaid MacCulloch, ‘The religion of Henry VIII’, in David Starkey (ed.), *Henry VIII: a European court in England* (London, 1987), pp. 160-62.

D. MacCulloch, ‘Henry VIII and the reform of the church’, in D MacCulloch (ed.), *The reign of Henry VIII* (1995)

Alec Ryrie, ‘The strange death of Lutheran England’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 53 (2002), 64-92

Maria Dowling, ‘Anne Boleyn and reform’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 35 (1984), pp. 30-46

John Guy, ‘Thomas Cromwell and the intellectual origins of the Henrician revolution’, in Alistair Fox and John Guy, *Reassessing the Henrician Age* (Oxford, 1986) and reprinted in Guy, *The Tudor Monarchy* (1997)

Susan Brigden, ‘Popular disturbance and the fall of Thomas Cromwell and the reformers, 1539-1540’, *Historical Journal*, 24 (1981), pp. 257-78

Richard Hoyle, ‘The origins of the dissolution of the monasteries’, *Historical Journal*, 30 (1995) Peter Cunich, ‘The dissolutions and their aftermath’, in Tittler & Jones (eds.), *Companion to Tudor Britain*, pp. 221-37.

Glyn Redworth, ‘A study in the formulation of policy’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 37 (1986)

**b) Reformation on the ground**

Christopher Haigh, ‘The recent historiography of the English Reformation’, *Historical Journal*, 25 (1982), pp. 995-1107.

Christopher Haigh, *English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors* (Oxford, 1993), ch. 11

Felicity Heal, *Reformation in Britain and Ireland* (Oxford, 2003), ch.6

C S L Davies, ‘The Pilgrimage of Grace reconsidered’, *Past and Present*, 41 (1973), pp.49-83

M L Bush, ‘“Up for the commonweal”: the significance of tax grievances in the English rebellions of 1536’, *English Historical Review*, 106 (1991), pp. 299-318

M E James, ‘Obedience and dissent in Henrician England: the Lincolnshire rebellion, 1536’, *Past & Present*, 48 (1970), pp, 3-78 and reprinted in his *Society, Politics and Culture*.

Ronald Hutton, ‘The local impact of the Tudor Reformations’, in Christoper Haigh (ed.), *The English Reformation revised* (Cambridge, 1987) and reprinted in P. Marshall (ed.), *The impact of the English Reformation* (London, 1997).

Robert Whiting, ‘Local responses to the Henrician Reformation’, in MacCulloch (ed.), *The reign of Henry VIII* (Basingstoke, 1995).

Susan Brigden, *London and the Reformation* (Oxford, 1989), chs. 6, 8-9.

Margaret Bowker, *The Henrician Reformation: the diocese of Lincoln under John Longland, 1521-1547* (Cambridge, 1981), (chapter 3 part 4; ch. 4)

John Craig, ‘Reformers, conflict and revisionism: the Reformation in sixteenth-century Hadleigh’, *Historical Journal*, 42 (1999), pp. 1-23.

Margaret Spufford, *Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries* (Cambridge, 1974), ch. 10.

Eamon Duffy, *The voices of Morebath: Reformation and rebellion in an English village* (New Haven and London, 2001)

Danae Tankard, ‘The Johnson family and the Reformation, 1542-52’, *Historical Research*, 80 (2007), pp. 469-90.

Glanmor Williams, *Renewal and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415-1642* (1987), pp. 276-96 Steven G. Ellis, *Ireland in the age of the Tudors* (London and New York, 1999), ch. 8

Henry A. Jeffries, ‘Parishes and pastoral care in the early Tudor era’, in Elizabeth Fitzpatrick and Raymond Gillespie (eds.), *The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland: community, territory and building* (Dublin, 2006), pp. 211-27.

Brendan Bradshaw, ‘Sword, word and strategy in the Reformation in Ireland’, *Historical Journal*, 21 (1978).

Stephen G. Ellis, ‘Economic problems of the Church: why the Reformation failed in Ireland’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 41 (1990)

Brendan Bradshaw, ‘The Reformation in the cities: Cork, Limerick and Galway, 1534-1603’, in J. Bradley (ed.), *Settlement and society in medieval Ireland: essays presented to F.X. Martin* (Kilkenny, 1988), pp. 445-76.

Brendan Scott, *Religion and reform in the Tudor diocese of Meath* (Dublin, 2006)

c) The Maid of Kent

Ethan Shagan, *Popular politics and the English Reformation* (Cambridge, 2003), ch. 2.

Ethan Shagan, ‘Print, orality and communication in the Maid of Kent affair’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 52 (2001), pp. 21-33.

Richard Rex, ‘The execution of the Holy Maid of Kent’, *Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research*, 64 (1991), pp. 216-20.

d) The Lincolnshire Rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace

Krista J Kesselring, ‘Rebellion and disorder’, in Susan Doran and Norman Jones (eds), *The Elizabethan world* (London, 2011), pp. 372-86.

Andy Wood, *Riot, rebellion and popular politics in early modern England* (Basingstoke, 2002)

M H Dodds and R Dodds, *The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-7, and the Exeter conspiracy, 1538* (Cambridge, 1915).

Richard W. Hoyle, *The pilgrimage of grace and the politics of the 1530s* (Oxford, 2001).

Richard Hoyle, ‘Thomas Master’s narrative of the Pilgrimage of Grace’, *Northern History*, 21 (1985), pp. 53-79.

A G Dickens, ‘Secular and religious motivation in the Pilgrimage of Grace’, in G.J. Cuming (ed.), *Studies in Church History*, 4 (1967), 39-64.

G R Elton, ‘Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace’, in B C Malament (ed.), *After the Reformation: essays in honour of J H Hexter* (Manchester, 1980), pp. 25-56 and reprinted in G R Elton, *Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government* (4 vols, Cambridge, 1974-92), III, pp. 183-215.

C S L Davies, ‘Popular religion and the Pilgrimage of Grace’, in Anthony Fletcher and J Stevenson (eds), *Order and disorder in early modern England* (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 58-91.

Michael L. Bush, *The pilgrimage of grace: a study of the rebel armies of October 1536* (Manchester, 1996).

Michael L Bush, ‘The Richmondshire uprising of October 1536 and the Pilgrimage of Grace’, *Northern History*, 29 (1993), pp. 64-98.

M E James, ‘Obedience and dissent in Henrician England: the Lincolnshire rebellion, 1536’, *Past & Present*, 48 (1970), pp. 3-78 and reprinted in his *Society, Politics and Culture*

Steven J. Gunn, ‘Peers, commons and gentry in the Lincolnshire revolt of 1536’, *Past & Present*, 123 (1989), pp. 52-79.

Michael L Bush, ‘The Tudor polity and the Pilgrimage of Grace’, *Historical Research*, 80 (2007), pp. 47-72.

C S L Davies, ‘The Pilgrimage of Grace reconsidered’, *Past and Present*, 41 (1973), pp.49-83

M L Bush, “Up for the commonweal”: the significance of tax grievances in the English rebellions of 1536’, *English Historical Review*, 106 (1991), pp. 299-318

Michael L Bush, ‘The Pilgrimage of Grace and the pilgrim tradition of Holy War’, in Colin Morris and Peter Roberts (eds), *Pilgrimage: the English experience from Becket to Bunyan* (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 178-98.

e) Propaganda

Virginia Murphy, ‘The literature and propaganda of Henry VIII’s first divorce’, in Diarmaid MacCulloch (ed.), *The reign of Henry VIII: politics, policy and piety* (London, 1995), pp. 135-58

J Christopher Warner, *Henry VIII’s divorce: literature and the politics of the printing press* (Woodbridge, 1998)

John Guy, ‘Thomas Cromwell and the intellectual origins of the Henrician revolution’, in Alistair Fox and John Guy (eds), *Reassessing the Henrician Age* (Oxford, 1986), pp. 151-78, and reprinted in Guy (ed.), *The Tudor Monarchy* (London, 1997), pp. 213-32

S W Haas, ‘Henry VIII’s *Glasse of Truthe*’, *History*, 64 (1979), pp. 353-62

Tracey A Sowerby, "All our books do be sent into other countreys and translated": Henrician polemic in its international context\*, *English Historical Review*, 121 (2006), pp. 1271-99 Richard Rex, 'Paul's Cross and the crisis of the 1530s', in Torrance Kirby and P G Stanwood (eds), *Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1520-1640* (Leiden and Boston, 2014), pp. 105-27

4. The Edwardian Church

Christopher Haigh, *English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors* (Oxford, 1993), chs. 10-13

Diarmuid MacCulloch, *Thomas Cranmer: a life* (New Haven, 1996), chs. 9-11.

Felicity Heal, *Reformation in Britain and Ireland* (Oxford, 2003), chs. 4, 6

Glanmor Williams, *Renewal and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415-1642* (1987), ch. 12

Steven G. Ellis, *Ireland in the age of the Tudors* (London, 1999), pp. 218-25

D MacCulloch, *Tudor church militant* (1999), chs. 2-3.

Eamon Duffy, *The stripping of the altars* (1992), ch. 14

Susan Brigden, *London and the Reformation* (Oxford, 1989), ch. 10.

John N King, 'Paul’s Cross and the implementation of protestant reforms under Edward VI', in Torrance Kirby and P G Stanwood (eds), *Paul's Cross and the culture of persuasion in England, 1520-1640* (Leiden and Boston, 2014), pp. 141-59

John N King, 'Freedom of the press, protestant propaganda and Protector Somerset', *Huntington Library Quarterly*, 40 (1976), pp. 1-9

John Craig, 'Reformers, conflict and revisionism: the Reformation in sixteenth-century Hadleigh', *Historical Journal*, 42 (1999), pp. 1-23

Margaret Spufford, *Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries* (Cambridge, 1974), ch. 10.

Eamon Duffy, *The voices of Morebath: Reformation and rebellion in an English village* (New Haven and London, 2001), ch. 6

Danae Tankard, ‘The Johnson family and the Reformation, 1542-52’, *Historical Research*, 80 (2007), pp. 469-90.

Brendan Scott, *Religion and reform in the Tudor diocese of Meath* (Dublin, 2006)

**South Western and Kett's Rebellions, 1549**

Barrett L. Beer, *Rebellion and riot: popular disorder in England during the reign of Edward VI* (rev. edn) (Kent, Ohio, 2005).

Andy Wood, *The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England* (Cambridge, 2007). J Youings, ‘The Southwestern Rebellion of 1549’, *Southern History*, 1 (1979), pp. 99-122

D MacCulloch, ‘Kett’s rebellion in context’, *Past & Present*, 84 (1979)

Ethan H. Shagan, ‘Protector Somerset and the 1549 rebellions: new sources and new perspectives’, *English Historical Review*, 114 (1999), pp. 34-63 WITH Michael L Bush, ‘Protector Somerset and the 1549 rebellions: a post-revision questioned’, *English Historical Review*, 115 (2000), pp. 103-12, AND George W. Bernard, ‘New perspectives or old complexities?’, *English Historical Review*, 115 (2000), pp. 113-20 AND Ethan H. Shagan, “Popularity” and the 1549 rebellions revisited’, *English Historical Review*, 115 (2000), pp. 121-33.

Jane Whittle, ‘Lords and Tenants in Kett’s Rebellion 1549’, *Past & Present*, 207 (2010), pp. 3-52.

5. The Marian Church

Eamon Duffy, *The stripping of the altars, c. 1400-c.1580* (Oxford, 1992), ch. 16.

Felicity Heal, *Reformation in Britain and Ireland* (Oxford, 2003), ch. 4, 6

Susan Doran, ‘A ‘sharp rod’ of chastisement: Mary I through protestant eyes during the reign of Elizabeth I’, in Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman (eds), *Mary Tudor: old and new perspectives* (Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 21-36

Thomas S Freeman, ‘Inventing Bloody Mary: perceptions of Mary Tudor from the Restoration to the twentieth century’, in Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman (eds), *Mary Tudor: old and new perspectives* (Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 78-102

William Wizeman, SJ, ‘The religious policy of Mary I’, in Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman (eds), *Mary Tudor: old and new perspectives* (Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 153-70

Eamon Duffy & David Loades (eds.), *The church of Mary Tudor* (Aldershot, 2006), particularly intro, essays by Loades (both essays), Houlbrooke, Collinson, Duffy, Edwards & Wooding.

John Edwards (ed.), *Reforming Catholicism in the England of Mary Tudor* (Aldershot, 2006), particularly introduction, essays by Tellecha Idígoras, Loades, Wooding & Mayer [some overlap with Duffy & Loades volume]

Rex H Pogson, ‘Reginald Pole and the priorities of government’, *Historical Journal* (1975)

Thomas Mayer, *Reginald Pole: prince and prophet* (Cambridge, 2000), ch. 7

Anna Whitelock and Diarmaid MacCulloch, ‘Princess Mary’s household and the succession crisis, July 1553’, *Historical Journal*, 50 (2007), pp. 265-87.

Lucy Wooding, *Rethinking catholicism in early modern England* (Oxford, 2000) William Wizeman, *The theology and spirituality of Mary Tudor’s church* (Aldershot, 2006)

Thomas S Freeman, ‘Burning zeal: Mary Tudor and the Marian persecution’, in Susan Doran and Thomas S Freeman (eds), *Mary Tudor: old and new perspectives* (Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 171-205

Elizabeth Evenden and Vivinne Westbrook (eds), *Catholic renewal and protestant resistance in Marian England* (Farnham and Burlington, VT, 2015)

Susan Brigden, *London and the Reformation* (Oxford, 1989), ch. 14.

Elizabeth Russell, ‘Marian Oxford and the Counter-Reformation’, in C.M. Barron & C. Harper-Bill (eds.), *The church in pre-Reformation society* (Woodbridge, 1985), pp. 212-27.

Margaret Spufford, *Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries* (Cambridge, 1974), ch. 10.

Christopher Haigh, *English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors* (Oxford, 1993), ch. 12.

Danae Tankard, ‘The Johnson family and the Reformation, 1542-52’, *Historical Research*, 80 (2007), pp. 469-90.

Glanmor Williams, ‘Wales and the reign of Queen Mary I’, *Welsh History Review*, 10 (1981), pp. 334-58.

Brendan Scott, *Religion and reform in the Tudor diocese of Meath* (Dublin, 2006)

6. The Elizabethan Church

a) General books

Christopher Haigh, *English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors* (Oxford, 1993), chs. 15-16.

Felicity Heal, *Reformation in Britain and Ireland* (Oxford, 2003), ch.9 & 10

Glanmor Williams, *Renewal and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415-1642* (1987), ch. 13

Steven G. Ellis, *Ireland in the age of the Tudors* (London and New York, 1999), pp. 225-42.

Brett Usher, ‘New wine into old bottles: the doctrine and structure of the Elizabethan church’, in Doran and Jones (eds.), *The Elizabethan world*, pp. 203-21.

Patrick Collinson, ‘Windows in a woman’s soul: questions about the religion of Queen Elizabeth I’, in Collinson (ed.), *Elizabethan essays* (London and Rio Grande, 1994), pp.87-118. Susan Doran, ‘Elizabeth I’s religion: the evidence of her letters’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 51 (2000)

**b) The Elizabethan Settlement**

Norman Jones, ‘Religious settlements’, in Tittler & Jones (eds.), *Companion to Tudor Britain*, pp. 238-53.

J.E. Neale, *Elizabeth I and her parliaments*, 1559-1581 (London, 1953), part 1

N M Sutherland, ‘The Marian exiles and the establishment of the Elizabethan regime’, *Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte*, 78 (1987), pp. 253-86

Norman Jones, *Faith by statute: parliament and the settlement of religion, 1559* (London, 1982)

Roger Bowers, 'The Chapel Royal, the first Edwardian Prayer Book and Elizabeth’s settlement of religion', *Historical Journal*, 43 (2000), pp. 317-44

**c) Puritans and puritanism**

John Coffey, *The Cambridge companion to puritanism* (Cambridge, 2008), essays by Collinson and Craig

Peter Iver Kaufman, ‘The godly, the godlier and godliest in Elizabethan England’, in Doran and Jones (eds.), *The Elizabethan world*, pp. 238-53

Carol Z. Wiener, ‘The Beleaguered Isle: a study of Elizabethan and early Jacobean anti-catholicism’, *Past & Present*, 51, 1971

Peter Lake, ‘The significance of the Elizabethan identification of the pope as Antichrist’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 31, 1980

Peter Iver Kaufman, ‘The protestant opposition to Elizabethan religious reform’, in Tittler & Jones (eds.), *Companion to Tudor Britain*, pp. 271-88.

Patrick Collinson, *The Elizabethan puritan movement* (Oxford, 1967), pp.243-88 and 291-329 [Though some parts of this book are a little outdated, it remains one of the most important and influential studies by the doyen of Elizabethan Puritanism and is well worth consulting generally]

Louise Campbell, ‘A diagnosis of religious moderation: Matthew Parker and the 1559 Settlement’, in Luc Racaut and Alec Ryrie (eds.), *Moderate voices in the European Reformation* (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, 2005), pp. 32-50.

Brett Usher, ‘The deanery of Bocking and the demise of the Vestiarian Controversy’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 52 (2001), pp. 434-55

Thomas S. Freeman, ‘As true a subject being prysoner’: John Foxe’s notes on the imprisonment of Princess Elizabeth, 1554-5’, *English Historical Review*, 117 (2002), pp. 104-16 Elizabeth Evenden and Thomas S. Freeman, ‘Print, Profit and Propaganda: The Elizabethan Privy Council and the 1570 Edition of Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’, *English Historical Review*, 119 (2004), pp. 1288-1307.

Thomas S Freeman, “The reformation of the church in this parliament”: Thomas Norton, John Foxe and the parliament of 1571, *Parliamentary History*, 16 (1997)

Patrick Collinson, ‘The downfall of Archbishop Grindal and its place in Elizabethan political and ecclesiastical history’, in Peter Clark, AGR Smith & Nicholas Tyacke (eds.), *The English Commonwealth, 1547-1640* (Leicester, 1979), pp. 39-57.

Ethan Shagan, ‘The battle for indifference in Elizabethan England’, in Luc Racaut and Alec Ryrie (eds.), *Moderate voices in the European Reformation* (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, 2005), pp. 122-44.

Patrick Collinson, ‘Ecclesiastical vitriol: religious satire in the 1590s and the invention of puritanism’, in Guy (ed.), *The reign of Elizabeth I* (Cambridge, 1995)

Christopher Haigh, *Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire* (Cambridge, 1975), ch. 14.

Ethan Shagan, ‘The English Inquisition: constitutional conflict and the English law in the 1590s’, *Historical Journal*, 47 (2004), pp. 541-65.

d) Catholicism

William Sheils, ‘Catholics and recusants’, in Tittler & Jones (eds.), *Companion to Tudor Britain*, pp. 254-70.

John Bossy, *The English catholic community, 1570-1850* (London, 1975) [the classic account of English catholicism]

John Bossy, ‘The character of Elizabethan catholicism’, *Past & Present*, 21 (1962), pp. 39-59

Christopher Haigh, ‘Review article: Catholicism in early modern England: Bossy and beyond’, *Historical Journal*, 45 (2002), pp. 481-94.

Christopher Haigh, ‘From monopoly to minority’, *Transactions of the Royal Historical Society*, 5th series, 31 (1981), pp. 129-47

Alexandra Walsham, Church papists: Catholicism, conformity and confessional polemic (Woodbridge, 2009)

Michael C. Questier, ‘What happened to English Catholicism after the English Reformation?’, *History*, 85 (2000), pp. 28-47.

Malcolm Thorpe, ‘Catholic conspiracy in early Elizabethan foreign policy’, *Sixteenth Century Journal*, 15 (1984)

Patrick McGrath, ‘Elizabethan Catholicism: a reconsideration’, *Journal of Ecclesiastical History*, 35 (1984), pp. 414-28 Christopher Haigh, *Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire* (Cambridge, 1975), ch. 14.

Michael C. Questier, *Catholicism and community in early modern England: politics, aristocratic patronage and religion, c.1550-1640* (Cambridge, 2006), chs. 1-8

Michael C. Questier, ‘Loyal to a fault: Viscount Montague explains himself’, *Historical Research*, 77 (2004), pp. 225-53.

Peter Lake & Michael C. Questier, ‘Margaret Clitherow, Catholic Nonconformity, Martyrology and the Politics of Religious Change in Elizabethan England’, *Past & Present*, 185 (2004), pp. 43-90.

E. Gwynne Jones, ‘The Lleyn recusancy case, 1578-1581’, *Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion*, (1936).

Colm Lennon, ‘Taking sides: the emergence of Irish Catholic ideology’, in Vincent P. Carey and Ute Lotz-Heumann (eds.), *Taking sides?: colonial and confessional mentalités in early modern Ireland* (Dublin, 2003), pp. 78-93.

Thomas M. McCoog, SJ, *The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland and England, 1541-1588: “our way of proceeding”* (Leiden, 1996)

Peter Lake, *The Anti-Christ’s lewd hat* (New Haven, 2002), chs. 6-8

e) Reformation on the ground

Christopher Haigh, ‘Success and failure in the English Reformation’, *Past & Present*, 173 (2001), pp. 28-49.

John Craig, *Reformation, politics and polemics: the growth of protestantism in East Anglian market towns, 1500-1610* (Aldershot & Burlington, VT, 2001), chs. 1, 3

Caroline Litzenberger, ‘Defining the Church of England: religious change in the 1570s’, in Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger (eds.), *Belief and practice in Reformation England* (Aldershot, 1998), pp. 137-53

Margaret Spufford, *Contrasting communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries* (Cambridge, 1974), ch. 10.

Christopher Haigh, *English Reformations: religion, politics and society under the Tudors* (Oxford, 1993), chs. 14-19.

Christopher Haigh, ‘The taming of Reformation: preachers, pastors and parishioners in Elizabethan and early Stuart England’, *History*, 85 (2000), pp. 572-88.

Eric Carlson, ‘Good pastors or careless shepherds?: parish ministers and the English Reformation’, *History*, 88 (2003), pp. 423-36. f) The Northern Rising, 1569

R R Reid, ‘The rebellion of the earls, 1569’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2nd series, 20 (1906), pp. 171-203.

M E James, ‘The concept of order and the Northern Rising of 1569’, Past and Present, 60 (1973), pp. 49-83.

David Marcombe, “A rude and heady people”: the local community and the rebellion of the Northern Earls’, in David Marcombe (ed.), The last principality: politics, religion and society in the bishopric of Durham, 1494-1660 (Nottingham, 1987), pp. 117-51.

Krista J Kesselring, The Northern Rebellion of 1569: faith, politics, and protest in Elizabethan England (Basingstoke, 2007).

Krista J. Kesselring, “A Cold Pye for the Papistes”: Constructing and Containing the Northern Rising of 1569, Journal of British Studies, 43:4 (2004), pp. 417-43.

Stephen Alford, The early Elizabethan polity: William Cecil and the British succession crisis, 1558-1569 (Cambridge, 1998), ch.8

7. Reformation in Wales and Ireland

a) Ireland

Steven G. Ellis, Ireland in the age of the Tudors (London, 1999)

Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2003)

Felicity Heal, ‘Mediating the Word: Language and Dialects in the British and Irish Reformations’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56 (2005), pp. 261-86.

Brendan Bradshaw, ‘Sword, word and strategy in the Reformation in Ireland’, Historical Journal, 21 (1978).

Nicholas Canny, ‘Why the Reformation failed in Ireland: une question mal posée’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 30 (1979).

Stephen G. Ellis, ‘Economic problems of the Church: why the Reformation failed in Ireland’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 41 (1990)

Colm Lennon, ‘Taking sides: the emergence of Irish Catholic ideology’, in Vincent P. Carey and Ute Lotz-Heumann (eds.), Taking sides?: colonial and confessional mentalités in early modern Ireland (Dublin, 2003), pp. 78-93.

Brendan Bradshaw, ‘The opposition to the ecclesiastical legislation in the Irish reformation parliament’, Irish Historical Studies, 16 (1969), pp. 285-303.

Henry A Jeffries, ‘The Irish parliament of 1560: the Anglican reforms authorised’, Irish Historical Studies, 26 (1988), pp. 128-41. Henry A. Jeffries, ‘Parishes and pastoral care in the early Tudor era’, in Elizabeth Fitzpatrick and Raymond Gillespie (eds.), The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland: community, territory and building (Dublin, 2006), pp. 211-27.

Helen C. Walshe, ‘Enforcing the Elizabethan settlement: the vicissitudes of Hugh Brady, bishop of Meath, 1563-84’, Irish Historical Studies, 26 (1989), pp. 352-76.

Brendan Bradshaw, ‘The Reformation in the cities: Cork, Limerick and Galway, 1534-1603’, in J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in medieval Ireland: essays presented to F.X. Martin (Kilkenny, 1988), pp. 445-76.

Brendan Scott, Religion and reform in the Tudor diocese of Meath (Dublin, 2006)

b) Wales

Glanmor Williams, Renewal and Reformation: Wales, c. 1415-1642 (1987), pp. 276-96

Peter Marshall, “The Greatest Man in Wales” : James ap Gruffydd ap Hywel and the International Opposition to Henry VIII”, Sixteenth Century Journal, 39 (2008), pp. 681-704.

Felicity Heal, 'Mediating the Word: Language and Dialects in the British and Irish Reformations', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56 (2005), pp. 261-86.

Glanmor Williams, ‘Wales and the reign of Queen Mary I’, Welsh History Review, 10 (1981), pp. 334-58.

E. Gwynne Jones, ‘The Lleyn recusancy case, 1578-1581’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, (1936).

8. A religion of the word?

a) Print and print culture

Alexandra Walsham, and Julia C. Crick, ‘Introduction : script, print and history’, in Julia C. Crick and Alexandra Walsham (eds.), The uses of script and print, 1300-1700 (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 1-26

Elizabeth Eisenstein, The printing press as an agent of change (1979) (or the abridged edition: The printing revolution in early modern Europe (Cambridge, 1983)).

Margaret Spufford, Small books and pleasant histories: popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England (London, 1981) [17th century but seminal]

Andrew Pettegree, ‘Printing and the Reformation: the English exception’, in Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie (eds.), The beginnings of English protestantism (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 157-179

Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2003), ch.7 John Barnard, D.F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell (eds.), *The Cambridge History of the book in Britain, volume IV* (Cambridge, 1999-), chs. 1, 3, 14, 20, 26, 27, 32, 34, 35 [Covers a wide range of issues; reference only]

David McKitterick, *Print, manuscript and the search for order, 1450-1830* (Cambridge, 2003)

Jennifer Loach, ‘The Marian establishment and the printing press’, *English Historical Review*, 101 (1986), pp.135-48.

Elizabeth Evenden, ‘The Michael Wood Mystery: William Cecil and the Lincolnshire Printing of John Day’, *Sixteenth Century Journal*, 35 (2004), pp. 383-94

Elizabeth Evenden and Thomas S. Freeman, ‘Print, Profit and Propaganda : The Elizabethan Privy Council and the 1570 Edition of Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs”, *English Historical Review*, 119 (2004), pp. 1288-1307.

David Scott Kastan, ‘Little foxes’, in Christopher Highley and John King (eds.), *John Foxe and his world* (Aldershot and Burlington, VT, 2002) [plus other good essays on a number of topics]

David Cressy, ‘Literacy in context: meaning and measurement in early modern England’, in John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), *Consumption and the world of goods* (London and New York, 1993), pp. 305-19

W.B. Stephens, ‘Literacy in England, Scotland and Wales, 1500-1900’, *History of Education Quarterly*, 30 (1990)

Peter Clark, ‘The ownership of books in England, 1560-1640’, in Lawrence Stone (ed.), *Schooling and Society: studies in the history of education* (Baltimore and London, 1976)

R Geraint Gruffydd, ‘The Renaissance and Welsh literature’, in Glanmor Williams and Robert Owen Jones (eds.), *The Celts and the Renaissance* (Cardiff, 1990),

J Gwynfor Jones, ‘The Welsh poets and their patrons, c. 1550-1640’, *Welsh History Review*, 14 (1979), pp. 245-77

Brian Ó Cuív, ‘The Irish language in the early modern period’, in T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds.), *A new history of Ireland III: Early modern Ireland, 1534-1691* (Oxford, 1976, 1991 edn), pp. 509-45

Alan Bliss, ‘The English language in early modern Ireland’, in T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds.), *A new history of Ireland III: Early modern Ireland, 1534-1691* (Oxford, 1976, 1991 edn), pp. 546-60.

*The Oxford history of the Irish book: volume III: the Irish book in English, 1550-1800*, ed. Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield (Oxford, 2006), chs. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 [Note that some of these chapters cover 17th century as well]

Raymond Gillespie, *Reading Ireland: print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland* (Manchester, 2005) Desmond Clarke and P J Madden, ‘Printing in Ireland’, *An Leabharlann*, 12 (1954), pp. 113-30

M. Pollard, *Dublin’s trade in books, 1550-1800* (Lyell Lectures, Oxford, 1989), ch. 2

Elizabeth Armstrong, ‘English purchases of books from the Continent, 1465-1526’, *English Historical Review*, 94 (1979), pp. 268-90.

b) ‘Manuscript publication’, script and oral culture

Alexandra Walsham, ‘Preaching without speaking: script, print and religious dissent’, in Julia C. Crick and Alexandra Walsham (eds.), *The uses of script and print, 1300-1700* (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 211-34.

Thomas S. Freeman, ‘Publish and perish: the scribal culture of the Marian martyrs’, in Julia C. Crick and Alexandra Walsham (eds.), *The uses of script and print, 1300-1700* (Cambridge, 2004), pp. 235-54.

Adam Fox, *Oral and literate culture in England, 1500-1700* (Oxford, 2000)

c) Censorship

Anthony Milton, ‘Licensing, censorship, and religious orthodoxy in early Stuart England’, *Historical Journal*, 41 (1998), pp. 625-51 [though seventeenth century, this article is reflects the current understanding of how censorship worked in this period]

Annabel Patterson, *Censorship and interpretation: the conditions of reading and writing in early modern England* (Madison, WI, 1984)

C.S. Clegg, *Press censorship in Elizabethan England* (Cambridge, 1997).

d) Images

Patrick Collinson, *The birthpangs of Protestant England: religious and cultural change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries* (New York, 1988), pp. 94-126

Margaret Aston, *England’s iconoclasts, I: laws against images* (Oxford 1988).

Tessa Watt, *Cheap print and popular piety, 1550-1640* (Cambridge, 1991).

John Phillips, *The reformation of images: destruction of art in England, 1535-1660* (Los Angeles & Berkeley, CA, 1973)

Margaret Aston & Elizabeth Ingram, ‘The iconography of the Acts and monuments’, in David Loades, *John Foxe and the English Reformation* (Aldershot & Burlington, VT, 1997), pp. 66-142.

William A. Dyrness, *Reformed theology and visual culture: the protestant imagination from Calvin to Edwards* (Cambridge, 2004), ch. 4 Alexandra Walsham, ‘Impolitic pictures: providence, History and the iconography of protestant nationhood in early Stuart England’, in R.N. Swanson (ed.), The church retrospective: studies in Church History, 33 (1997), pp. 307-28

Edward Hodnett, Image and text: studies in the illustration of English literature (London, 1982), esp. ch. 2

Sheila O’Connell, The popular print in England, 1550-1850 (London, 1999)

Rowena J. Smith, 'The lambe speaketh…: an English protestant satire', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 61 (1998), pp. 262-7

Malcolm Jones, ‘The lambe speaketh…: an addendum’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 63 (2000), pp. 287-94

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